And one receives all the blessings, and particularly the blessings to enable you to gain the wisdom. Wisdom to realize the selflessness of all, the personal and the phenomena of selflessness. And so with this, we conclude as a conclusion. First, promise to hold all the rules and pledges, and then the medal offering, and then the dedication of merits. This is the word of God. The word of God is the word of God.

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God said, [...] Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. So, we are going to be able to do this. We are going to be able to do this. This is the story of the people [...] of the people.

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. . . Thank you. I believe he never does you. On behalf of the ,, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for coming to visit here in Portland.

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And also, we appreciate very much your last four days teaching, which is a great benefit for all of us here in Portland as well as worldwide. And this is kind of beginning time. And this is for the one of the, I think, best programs we had here because of our directors and our members. And he's holding us. We are requesting you to come back again here in Oregon and give us more teaching, even we don't have very much sunshine. Your teaching and your initiation is as much as sunshine for us.

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And thank you very much. And also, I'd like to take a little opportunity to express behalf of the audience to our director Sonoma, he is a skillful organization organizing the center and the program. And also he has so much knowledge In the Western knowledge, of course, he was born and raised over here. And then he went to India and studied Sanskrit, Tibetan, and the tremendous knowledge he got from this. And now he's starting practice his knowledge to benefit for us.

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So we appreciate very much for your skill and direction and the help for us. And we love you, and we support your tremendous work for the benefits of others. And I'm sure this holiness will be very happy for your work, which you are doing for us. And also, I'd like to take opportunity to appreciate our members of the Food and Drug Department their skill, their duplication, and their courage, which is very enlightened for all of us to do this kind of project. As you all know, that the membership and their skill, membership's skill, put this tremendous good problem, which benefits all of us in the future.

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And also, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for all the friends of Dharma friends, which is we all become as Dharma friends. And also, we are now disciples of His Holiness. And I really don't need to take too much time, but I'd like to few words to say his holiness is the one of the most tradition in Tibetan lineage holder and the Sadiya lineage holder and this other historically Tibetan Sadiya lineage is a tremendous benefit for the Tibetans for many years and his holiness is we are fortunate still he is young and he has all the lineage all the skill and all the courage.

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So I see in the future, there is a great opportunity for us to practice as he's holding as part of our dharma practice, which is beneficial for not only on the zone, but all the sentient beings. And now it's kind of up to us how we're going to practice. We got all the initiations with for the compassion, and for the power, and for the wisdom. And we had a little discussion before historians came here. What initiation will be benefits for us as a beginner? I feel some of the, I'm sure, advance, but for us as a beginner. So we discussed ,, you know, His Holiness has one of the lot higher initiation holders.

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But we feel first that the and is the most profound and the most suitable for our level is time. I'm sure in the future, if we do practice, right, if we do practice, I'm sure we will get higher initiations from His Holiness, since I already say His Holiness is still young. And His compassion is all just like a sunshine. And the rings, the hook is there, but the rings are nice and round. So that's kind of my thing. And I like, you know, kind of feel like she's here with my friends. And I like to take the opportunity for the Tibetan community.

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They provided tremendous Tibetan dishes, which his holiness enjoyed very much. And also, on church, very much, because we had a lot of discussions with the drink the last three days. They say don't want to eat too much because they're fat like us. While we are insisting, then, well, it's okay. You know, get fat once, well, it's not bad. So they had a good time, too. And so we, our connection has begun very well, very satisfied, and he saw it as in his and he is very enjoyed here when we don't have a sunshine. And because after all, we have a little talk with His Holiness. He said in India, where he live right now, there's too many sunshine. Too much sunshine.

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So we, you know, our director tells His Holiness, His Holiness is a part of our offering for the cloud. So we have a good time and good lighting and a good memory for All of us. So bottom of our heart and things, the program success is that all of you, and I hope everybody will do practice individually as a group. If you like to practice as a group, we can show their children is already organized, and we have a well-skilled membership and a well-skilled director. And the brochures and the telephone members and everything around there, times we meet once a week or twice a week, all be there down there, time to time. And we hope you people visit us and participate in us, and let's make some more. Thank you very much, Disordinary, for coming and giving us tremendous teaching.

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In the sky, [...] the sky. . [...] oh my god

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Thank you. And yeah. Thank you.

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Thank you. .

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. . . Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Oh, One, six of my roses on my head, having races through your kindness straight, let's fly a naughty voice and cry and die with it.

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In immortal, I scrolls here to you, seven and one grand, taking deathless Great assemblage, granted deathlessness. Grant a chamber of immortal life. Bhaktivana, Padma, Sampadha. Wisdom, blood, and power to spray him for. ... [...]

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Bremen at the time to be seen through a flash. We just go to clear the name Bremen at the beginning. We didn't stay far. You had made that clear the name, [...] the name We are going to have some light to be able to hear the music from the beginning. We are going [...] to be able to hear the music from the beginning. Thank you.

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... [...] that are all those lying out about your street, bring them under your knees by a footless throw, praying for our teachers' broken down, praying for our teachers' chaseless lives, praying that there are others with no man's turn, not to hide from them all as in peace. Yet again, I am not going to plough as long as my father. Yet again, I am not going to enter the sea, but I am not going to lie.

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Yet again, I am not going to lie through the surface. I am not going to lie through the surface. I am not going to lie through the surface. So I would like to thank you very much for all of you, being very kind and to, and especially the members, the president and the members of the , we have worked very hard in arranging my trip here in Portland. And it has been a great joy to be able to visit this beautiful city and have a chance to many people who are interested, sincere and very interested in the teachings of the Buddha.

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And it is a great joy for me to share whatever little knowledge that I have the Buddha's teaching for the last few days to be with you and to share with you. As I, many of the times, as I have indicated, that in our life we have many things to do, but there's no more important than the Dharma practice. Dharma practice is the only thing that gives us the real comforts and the real peace, and it is the only way to solve our problems. sufferings and so therefore that when we have all the right conditions that it is very important to practice it in the past in india as well as in tibet and many countries there are many many great masters who have through the same kind of teaching the teachings that we practice now

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The deities that we practice now, the meditations that we do now, through the same kind of practice, but with great diligence, and that they have succeeded in attaining the high realization and gained the real insight, wisdom, through which that they have clear up all those curations and gain the real insight wisdom through which that they have benefited countless sentient beings and so now also if we practice it there's no reason that we also be able to gain the such realizations because in the beginning that many of these great masters also are just like us ordinary persons but through the the great diligence and efforts they've been able to remove the all forms of obscurations and then gain the insight wisdom and very great

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realizations so that not only they themselves are permanently free from the from the all forms of obscuration but gained so much wisdom that they can benefit with so many sentient beings so we also since we have all the the right conditions we have the seat we have the right conditions we have the teaching when everything, then there's no reason that we will also obtain such a thing. So when we have such opportunity, when we have to do such a goal, such a opportunity, that we do not, if we lose this, instead that if we cling to the ordinary actions, if we caught up in the the worldly activities that do not have benefit, much benefit, and so therefore, by coding up in these ordinary actions, and if we lose the higher goal, if we lose the higher opportunity, then that is the great loss that no one can replace.

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And so therefore, It is a very joy to see that so many people are interested in the Buddha's teaching and I have been to the several times here in the West and every time that I see that there's improvements in many ways and so therefore it is a great joy to see and I can see that it is already a great beginning. And so now with this beginning that we mature, bring up together with the diligence and sincere faith and diligence. And then just like when you have the seed and the right conditions, then there's no reason that it will ripen in due course, in due course, full fruit. It will not bear the full fruit. And so therefore, first of all, I would like to request everyone who received teachings from me to practice Dharma very diligently.

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When you practice Dharma, there are basic structures laid down by the great masters that are common to all the traditions, the Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Vajrayana. all of this, the first thing is to be a good moral conduct. Just like the earth is the base for all the animate and inanimate objects. Similarly, the base for all the quality is the good moral conduct. Without the good moral conduct, that one could not gain the higher qualities. And so, therefore, the good moral conduct whatever vows that one has received, for instance, for most lay people, since here is the mostly lay people, that the basic rule is to have a sincere devotion and faith in the Thibautism, and then to keep the five precepts.

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That is common to all. So this is very important, to keep the five precepts and to abstain in a more elaborate way is that is to keep the, to abstain, to abstain from the ten non-virtual states and to practice, in other words, to practice the ten virtuous deeds. And that is the very basic thing. When you enroll on the spiritual path, the very first thing is to practice this. And then based on this, based on the good moral conduct, is the studying, contemplation and the meditation that needs to equally lead. If we devote the full time only on study, that is also not right. But if you devote the full time only on the contemplation and only on one side, it is not right. First thing is to study.

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We need to divide the time equally on the study. without study, that we can't meditate. In order to practice dharma, that one must know first what one is going to practice. And after studying, if we spend the full time on studying, that is also not right, because the main thing, after studying what we are going to do is to meditate. because only through the meditation that we can eliminate the defilements and awaken the inner wisdom. And so that the study is first and what we study, whatever the knowledge that one gain, then to put that into the actions in day to day's life, in everyday life,

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within our 24-hour daytime life, that if we could practice the whatever little knowledge that everyone has, that we could put into the practice, then the purpose of giving the teaching has been fulfilled. Otherwise, when the lamas come, and the teachers come, and sometimes and occasionally that everyone practices, receive many teachings, but in day-to-day's life, everyday life, if you just remain in the same ordinary life, then the purpose of giving teaching is not fulfilled. And the main purpose of giving the teaching is to tame our mind. The Lord Buddha gave 84,000 pile of teachings and this is to all of them to tame our mind our mind that which is so much involved with the defilements which is so easy to involve with the defilements because that it being associated with the defilements from the beginning last time so therefore that it is very difficult to eliminate these defilements

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And so that by applying in everyday life, after receiving the teaching, after doing the practice, that if there is a change, if there is a change, that there's less defilements, lesser confusion, the lesser anxiety, and the more calm, and more peace, and more relaxation and the more develops the more quality side of the mind like a loving kindness and the compassion and then the the teaching is really working so therefore to practice to emphasize on the practice after receiving the teaching is very very important and it is just like receiving the empowerment and the teaching is like a planting a seed If we plant the seed and did not care, then even if it is at the right spot, it will not grow.

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Or even if it grows, it will not grow properly. To grow properly, to bear the fruits, the good fruits that it needs, continuous care and efforts. so after receiving this teaching that everybody must work hard and to work to do what to do that continue practice the community is also very important that even just one person is difficult so the community is very important and because when you have the community then one can discuss and one can experience The whole purpose of taking refuge in the Sangha is to share the experience and to rely on help on each other.

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And so, therefore, the community is very important. And those who are interested here, here is the sender, the Udian Jogye Chun Zuling, who started by his eminence, Jogye Chichen Rinpoche. Jogye Chichen Rinpoche is one of the very few... great masters who possess the wisdom of not only through the study but the real inner wisdom the real inner wisdom through the meditation and obtain the very high realizations not only well known in our Tradition, but he is also well known in all the Tibetan traditions all the great masters have taken him as their guru and received the profound teachings in every most lineages and I myself my one of the my most important root gurus and From whom I have received

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all the collection of tantra which means that which contains all the major empowerment of not only our tradition but the traditions of all the Tibetan Buddhism and so therefore he is very great and so when he came here last year that it was the right at the appropriate time, the appropriate place, and with the interdependent originations that Rambuji have been able to establish the center here, and so, and it has many good members, and especially a very good scholar, and the skillful means, who have been a very old friend of mine, And actually through his that I learned the English, all the English that I have spoken is through his efforts.

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So the one who has the real knowledge of the old, the required knowledge of the Sanskrit, Tibetan, and English old. So therefore it has a very good opportunity. So those who are interested can... participate in this and so that the Dharma could to continue flourish through one's own practice as well as for the practice for the benefit of wider audience so if we could do this then of course that is the the most I will be very very happy see and I will also pray that all of you to have a real success in your worldly life and as well as in your spiritual life for your own vectors as well as the noble task of spreading the Buddha's teaching throughout the United States.

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So with this now, I conclude and may the blessings of the Lord Buddha and His teaching and the Sangha be with you now and always. Thank you. Thank you, Your Father. And thanks to the world for your participation and friendship. We're very happy to come together and meet all of you on this special occasion. We'll continue contact and venture for the future. I have a few brief announcements today before we conclude on this program. I'd like to draw your attention again to the of information, dharma wares that have been laid out to take us around the room.

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There you will find many useful books, other dharma objects that will be helpful to you and your own practice. I'll pray to you because there's much time to write today. and just in the form where you graduate, keeping in mind also for your support, for the very meaningful and very efficient, for the benefit of the proceeds, that is to say, for every change of children's interest. And whereas from the bookstore, I've looked at him. They're all very used to it. I don't. I couldn't care about him. He wants to know some time.

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We're leaving. I took some shows with you. Also, I'd like to...

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